[SOLVED] Re: logrotate won't finish, high cpu usage

[<manuel@mhofer.eu.org>]

i was able to solve the problem by removing the state-file of logrotate
rm /var/lib/logrotate/status

regards,
manuel

On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:34:08 +0200, <manuel@mhofer.eu.org> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> recently i've been experiencing problems with logrotate, each time it
runs
> it 
> gets kinda stuck and eats up the systems cpu for days without finishing
(i 
> don't have that many/big logfiles to rotate)
> 
> the output of "logrotate -d -v /etc/logrotate.conf" just stops at
"reading 
> config info for /var/log/btmp"
> 
> the logrotate configuration for /var/log/btmp looks like this:
>> /var/log/btmp {
>>    missingok
>>    monthly
>>    create 0660 root utmp
>>    rotate 1
>> }
> 
> when i run strace on the logrotate pid i get the following message
> appearing 
> over and over again..
>> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2211, ...}) = 0
> 
> logrotate is running in a linux-vserver-guest
> version: logrotate-3.7.1-5
> kernel: 2.6.26-2-vserver-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 10 10:39:33 UTC 2010 i686 
> GNU/Linux
> 
> i can't really tell what time it has stopped working and what changed at
> that 
> moment, but it has been working for a while before.
> 
> thanks in advice
> 
> regards,
> manuel hofer
> 
> 
>